From: Luis Lavena Date: 2010-09-04T02:33:01+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:32047] Re: merging nokogiri to ext/ On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:43 AM, NARUSE, Yui wrote: >> >> Isn't that also true of ffi's dependency on libffi? > > Yes, it is open problem on Windows. > Why fiddle is accepted is dl2 can't work well on x86_64 and it can't be fixed. > > The problem is described following in Japanese but most quotation is in English. > http://mkosaki.blog46.fc2.com/blog-entry-1069.html > > So we needed another impl. > Hello, As part of RubyInstaller we compile libffi statically and successfully build Fiddle for 1.9.2 release. I don't see a problem with that. > > Well, we could obsolete dl and recommend ffi gem. > It is discussed just before 1.9.2 release but it's too late. > That will be very problematic at least for WIn32API, as usage of it is discouraged and usage of DL is recommended, then without DL users will no longer have choices. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry